Nina Huntemann

… does “personalization” possibly mean if there’s no “personally identifiable information” in… does “personalization” possibly mean if there’s no “personally identifiable information” involved? What happens to bodies and identities — particularly bodies and identities of marginalized people — when they’re submitted to a new algorithmic regime that claims to be identity-less, that privileges identity-less-ness? And of course, what are the ideologies underneath these purportedly identity-less algorithms? (We m…

An algorithmic education, despite all the promises made by ed-tech entrepreneurs for “revolution” and “disruption,” is likely to re-inscribe the power relations that are already in place in school and in society. Profiling has very different implications for different groups.

…uction and assessment and administrative decision-making that is more efficient and “personalized.” But we must ask more about why efficiency is a goal — this is, after all, the application of business criteria to education — and how that goal of efficiency shapes an algorithmic education. (How, for example, is “engagement” in ed-tech shaped by Web analytics; that is, “engagement” has be…